Warriors: Power of Three #2: Dark River

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Ash slowly blinked her eyes open. Blurry images swam around her, and she couldn’t tell what was real and what wasn’t. Blinking, she managed to clear all of the fake visions from her head. She always wondered why she was different from the rest of the kits staying with her family - they all ate, played, and slept, ate, played, and slept, again and again, in an endless cycle.
Ash hated cycles.
Maybe she was weird, maybe she was insane - like Nora said. She didn’t feel insane, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t.
|No, sister says not to listen to them. They’re rude, not true.|
It felt like her sister knew everything. That is, everything except for why mother and father didn’t seem to love her and her siblings. She had two brothers and a sister, surely they all needed care? But no, all the attention always went to their adopted kit, not their real ones. Ash felt a wave of intense jealousy surging through her. It wasn’t fair. Raven got all of her parent’s attention, and she got none.
|Is it bad to have these thoughts?| Ash wanted nothing more than to impress her parents. She couldn’t do that if she had bad thoughts, could she?
|What’s so special about her..?|
Shaking her head, she tried to clear her mind. She knew why Raven was such a god. That didn’t mean that she liked it, but she knew.
She also knew that she looked like her real mother. Her father was a red tabby, but Ash was light gray, like her mother. Of course, her mother was terrible. Faint memories told her that, pretty clearly. Images of her mother yelling, threatening her, to even swiping at her radiated with ' bad mother’ vibes.
Why did everyone hate Ash? She did nothing, but everyone acted like she had set the camp on fire.
|It all boils down to mother. Father hates mother, and me as an extension-|
She couldn’t say that. Her father loved her… didn’t he?
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Next chapter in Outcast, ik this fanfic is really weird :/

•Was this forest endless? Did it have all the answers I seek? Are there really vicious wild cats waiting to tear me open?• She gasped and realized she’d been holding her breath, She remembered her housefolk and knew that around this time they would be calling for her only to find that she would not be there. The sun was waning and she knew she had to find shelter, •Maybe I can find myself new housefolk?• Just then a voice spoke from deeper within the hollow which she was resting,”oh for starclan’s sake do all kittypets smell that foul” a odd and rusty sounding voice mewed sarcastically. “And who might you be?” The she - cat mewed trying to sound brave,”oh please, kittypet, I’ll let you stay the night don’t worry” and with that the she-cat saw his back turn and fade into the darkness, •That was…odd but I feel like that could be a friend..• then a thought came to her,•Did he say…starclan?• she knew what starclan was because of wild cats that lived beside her garden but that was a long way away from here. •hm, he must be a traveler, I should be getting rest though• and without a further thought she curled up and rested until morning…

“Hey..” A embarrassed sounding new came from the entrance, she also felt a paw prodding her side,”Get this flea-bag up! Do you think you can handle that, Turtle?”
“Of course I can” a small voice made her jump, she liked the thought of the cat, Turtle, coming to wake her up maybe he could explain.
“Uhm… can you wake up please?” Turtle asked her softly
“Im already up” she slowly stood to her paws, as she looked at turtle she realized that he must be the same age as her, a little less than 12 moons old
“Oh uhm hello, im turtle”
“Well Hello turtle, I am…” she paused
“Is something wrong?”
“No, my name is juniper”
“We’ll if you were awake then you probally heard the other cat..”
“Yes I did who is he?” At that question it seemed as though turtle was deciding whether to tell her or not, Juniper thought his thinking face was cute.
“That was Claw’Bird” he finally mewed
“Claw…bird?”
“Yes, he used to be a clan cat but now he’s not-“ he cut off as claw’bird cane prowling in and stalked right up to juniper with a bunch of cats behind him
“Hold her down” he growled
At once the cats were holding her down, pinning her everywhere, her back, her paws, and her tail. She was scared, and lashed out the other cats started unsheathing thier claws and raking her all over, her muzzle was bloody and she couldn’t see through the blood from her right eye her stomach hurt most of all
“Stop!” She heard turtle wail, almost like he cared about her.
“Don’t hurt her please!” Turtle begged
“Yes, Claw’Bird I agree we shouldn’t be attacking her we should be holding her hostage and training her”
Suddenly Juniper knew what was happening she had stumbled upon the rouges of the forest, and she was never going to escape.

Lol short chapter sorry, next chapter is in the next book bye bye!

~sincerely,Dovepool

Hi! ⒷⓁⒶⒸⓀⓇⓄⓈⒺ here! Here are a couple name ideas if you need some!

Honeyseed

Mintleaf

Fisheyes

Eagleheart

Firebird

Pinepelt

Snowfeather

Willowfrost

Bluestorm

Blackhawk

Greenpeak

Pureheart

Swallowspots

Bluefrost

Lynxtuft

Orangestem

Lillyfall

Sedgewhisker

Cloverfall

Brightpool

Addereye

Redwing

Turtlepelt

Tortioustail

Troutspots

Silentrain

Foxstripe

Appletree

Bumbleear

Jaywing

Hollycloud

Quickstep

Fernsedge

Shadedleaf

Oakfeather

Clearwater

Flowerspot

Cloverfeather

Sapwhisker

Goldenshadow

Blueshadow

Part two will be in book 3!